Journal of Financial Services Research

In this paper, I analyze the developments in the euro-area primary bond market during the Covid-19 pandemic. The most surprising effect is the significant increase in the share of investment-grade bonds from 15% to 40%. Over the first phases of …

We use the staggered adoption of Universal Demand (UD) laws, which significantly reduces the shareholder litigation rights of listed banks incorporated in 23 US states during the period from 1989 to 2005, as a quasi-natural experiment to examine …

This paper investigates ex-ante factors influencing international bank acquisition of FinTech companies from 2010–2018. Using hand-collected data, we show that bank boards with a larger female presence as well as those that have CEOs with longer …

We investigate how local deposit shocks affect bank lending in nonaffected markets for the case where banks mostly neutralize that shock. Colombian banks in oil-producing municipalities experienced deposit outflows after the collapse of oil prices …

Using a sample of 7,919 banks from 30 OECD countries over 1995–2019, we examine the impact of low interest rates on banks’ net interest margins. Our results confirm a positive relationship between interest rates and interest margins, which is …